Duncan McKenzie (soccer player, 1950)
| Duncan McKenzie | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | June 10, 1950 | |
| place of birth | Grimsby , England | |
| position | striker | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1969-1974 | Nottingham Forest | 111 (41) |
| 1970 | → Mansfield Town (loan) | 10 (3) |
| 1973 | → Mansfield Town (loan) | 6 (7) |
| 1974-1976 | Leeds United | 66 (27) |
| 1976 | RSC Anderlecht | 9 (2) |
| 1976-1988 | Everton FC | 48 (14) |
| 1978-1979 | Chelsea FC | 15 (4) |
| 1979-1981 | Blackburn Rovers | 74 (16) |
| 1981 | Tulsa roughnecks | 31 (14) |
| 1982 | Chicago Sting | 20 (3) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Duncan McKenzie (born June 10, 1950 in Grimsby ) is a former English football player.
Player career
Nottingham Forest
Duncan McKenzie made his Football League First Division debut in 1969/70 for Nottingham Forest in the English Premier League. In order to collect match practice, he moved to third division club Mansfield Town in March 1970 , where he scored three goals in ten league games. After returning to Nottingham , he played eight league games in the 1970/71 season and scored two goals. McKenzie made his breakthrough as a regular player (33 games / 7 goals) in the First Division in 1971/72 . The season was less successful for Forest, the team had lost many established players in recent years with Henry Newton , Joe Baker , Terry Hennessey and Ian Storey-Moore and were relegated from the First Division after 15 years.
Also in the Second Division he maintained his regular place before he moved to Manfield Town again on loan in February 1973. After his return, he achieved the best performance of his playing career in the 1973/74 season, when he scored 26 goals in 41 second division games and was selected for the PFA Team of the Year in the Second Division. With this achievement McKenzie also made higher class clubs to attention and so he left Nottingham Forest in August 1974.
Leeds United
His new club was the reigning English champions Leeds United , who had lost their long-time coach Don Revie to the English national team after winning the First Division title in 1973/74 . The successor Brian Clough , who received a lot of media attention , brought in two other players in addition to McKenzie with John McGovern and John O'Hare to change the face of the team. Clough was fired after 44 turbulent days and replaced by Jimmy Armfield . Duncan McKenzie (27 games / 11 goals) also came under the new coach regularly in the 1974/75 season , but only finished ninth in the league. The club played more successfully in the 1974/75 European Cup when United reached the final in Paris after beating FC Barcelona in the semi-finals . There, however, Leeds lost 2-0 to German champions FC Bayern Munich without McKenzie . Also in the Football League First Division 1975/76 Duncan McKenzie showed his class with 16 goals in 39 games and reached fifth place with Leeds.
RSC Anderlecht and FC Everton
In the summer of 1976 he moved to the top Belgian club RSC Anderlecht , which had won the title in the 1975/76 European Cup Winners' Cup in the preseason . After only half a year in Belgium, however, McKenzie decided to return to England and moved to Everton FC in December 1976 for £ 200,000 . For the club from Liverpool he scored 5 goals in 20 games in the First Division 1976/77 and finished the season in 9th place. The club performed significantly better in the Football League First Division 1977/78 with a third place in the table. McKenzie's former club Nottingham Forest was able to secure the championship title this season as a promoted team.
Chelsea FC and Blackburn Rovers
After the start of the 1978/79 season, another club change followed for £ 165,000 to Chelsea . In his first game on September 9, 1978 against Coventry City , he scored his first goal in a 3-2 win. The season should prove to be unsuccessful and even before the relegation of Chelsea from the Football League First Division 1978/79 , he moved to the Blackburn Rovers in March 1979 . With the Rovers he rose in the 1979/80 season from the third division to the second division.
Web links
- Data of the individual seasons
- Duncan McKenzie at Everton FC
- Duncan McKenzie at Chelsea FC
- Duncan McKenzie at Leeds United
Individual evidence
- ↑ The inside story of Brian Clough at Leeds (The Independent)
- ↑ 1974/75: Bayern win against Leeds (UEFA.com)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McKenzie, Duncan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grimsby , England |